TOUR BOSTON: ON LOCATION
Fuck a duck(boat), you may be thinking, is it almost fall again? Am I going to have to walk more leaf-gawking out-of-towners down the Freedom Trail while explaining why we can’t station our automobile...
View ArticleSHUTTERSTORY: AWAY WITH THE SEGWAY
I went to New York City this past weekend, and on the crowded streets of SoHo, I was not expecting to walk by this couple riding on a Segway. I snapped this shot like a celebrity sighting when it was...
View ArticleTHE GIRL WITH THE @SWEDEN TWITTER FEED
In December 2011, the tourism bureau of Sweden made its Twitter feed @Sweden into a democracy, and they didn’t even have the U.S. Armed Forces to help them. Since then, every seven days, a new citizen...
View ArticleTROLLEY TROLLOP: KEEP CALM AND CONFORM
I’ve always been the kind of person who valued individuality and nonconformity, just like every other single person my age. And just like every other single person my age, I would cry tears into my...
View ArticleNEWS TO US: PLEASE CHINA, GET YOUR TOURISM TOGETHER
I have spent my entire life living in numerous different urban environments that have a tendency to skew into tourist traps (London, Hong Kong, Philly, Boston, etc.), and I praise the lord as someone...
View ArticleCASINOS IN THE COMMONWEALTH: DOES ANYBODY UNDER 40 GIVE A FUCK?
Image by Scott Murry Boston Mayor Marty Walsh signed an agreement last week with Mohegan Sun, the company hoping to build a casino in Revere, which would require the developer to invest $300 million...
View ArticleIN FEAR OF LOSING THEIR VOICES, BOSTON FREEDOM TRAIL GUIDES UNITE AND SPEAK...
“If I had a dime for every meal or cup of coffee I’ve generated in the North End, I’d have a boat by now.”
View ArticleFOOD IN THE PUBLICK INTEREST: A TALE OF TWO VERY DIFFERENT COLONIAL RESTAURANTS
While the Wayside Inn has the feel of a special-occasion place, the Warren Tavern is a completely different animal, instead being a rather small watering hole located in one of the most congested...
View ArticleTHE COVIDS ARE COMING: HOW BOSTON TOURIST DESTINATIONS ARE IMPACTED BY THE...
"We had to learn how to adapt to the situation, and we needed to learn fast."
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